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Posted by: monkDAN
IMO the best stories in halo have not been about Spartans.
Like Dirt by Tobias Buckell, Human Weakness, The Return, Contact Harvest, etc.
See OP, you need to realize that Halo's universe is based around one single, million year long story. I'd rather it not turn into a Star Wars esque universe since at that point it just gets all shot to hell with different levels of canon and so on. In fact, Star Wars has gotten so big, its gotten self-reduntant.
All the happy endings in that universe are made pointless by the plethora of other Sith and evil guys in the Galaxy; you know its not over, and it never will be over until George Lucas either gets tired of making money (he won't) or dies. The Star Wars movie series was made utterly pointless because of this.
Halo's story is so broad in scope its nearly unbelievable TBH. Its been integrated within the fanbase. Trying to tell a random story out of the blue that doesn't better our understanding of the main story arc wouldn't be recieved well (which is why the story Cole Protocol has a lot of hate for it, though I personally think there's things to be learned there).
Its not a matter of the writers not being able too, its a matter of them not wanting to, nor the fans not wanting to read it (for the most part).